.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 290 128
Rank change year-on-year -37 -162 +34
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 416 417 1,867
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.52% 1.10% 2.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.33% 5.57% 11.02%
Number of salaries quoted 385 361 1,771
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,801 7,487 16,947
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.70% 19.71% 20.30%
Number of salaries quoted 5,897 5,743 14,121
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,750 £51,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,064
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 3 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -61 112 £55,000 -8.33% 34
London -56 82 £82,500 +3.13% 52
South East -23 65 £60,000 +14.29% 27
North West -19 64 £55,000 -8.33% 17
Midlands -20 63 £65,000 +23.81% 12
East Midlands -5 47 £65,000 +23.81% 6
South West -35 46 £55,000 -18.52% 12
East of England -1 41 £90,000 +71.43% 13
North East -21 28 £65,000 +44.44% 7
Yorkshire -75 20 £55,000 -8.33% 10
West Midlands -38 16 £65,000 +10.17% 6
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 21 (5.05%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.68%) IIS
3 2 (0.48%) CMS
4 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Magento
2 1 (0.24%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 251 (60.34%) Azure
2 79 (18.99%) AWS
3 67 (16.11%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (11.06%) SaaS
5 44 (10.58%) Serverless
6 43 (10.34%) Azure Logic Apps
7 42 (10.10%) Power Platform
8 31 (7.45%) GitHub
9 23 (5.53%) Azure Data Factory
9 23 (5.53%) Power Automate
9 23 (5.53%) PowerApps
10 21 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
11 20 (4.81%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (4.57%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (4.57%) Azure Functions
12 19 (4.57%) Azure Service Bus
12 19 (4.57%) OneDrive
13 18 (4.33%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (3.13%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.72%) Internet
2 2 (0.48%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.24%) AMQP
3 1 (0.24%) Firewall
3 1 (0.24%) HTTP
3 1 (0.24%) Modbus
3 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (37.26%) SQL Server
2 63 (15.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 37 (8.89%) Power BI
4 29 (6.97%) MongoDB
5 28 (6.73%) NoSQL
6 19 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (2.88%) MySQL
8 11 (2.64%) DynamoDB
9 10 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (1.68%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.44%) Redis
12 2 (0.48%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.24%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
13 1 (0.24%) GIS
13 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 46 (11.06%) Git
2 8 (1.92%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.44%) JIRA
3 6 (1.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (0.96%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.72%) NUnit
5 3 (0.72%) Vite
6 2 (0.48%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.48%) MSTest
6 2 (0.48%) webpack
7 1 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.24%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.24%) Selenium
7 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 65 (15.63%) Finance
2 50 (12.02%) Social Skills
3 14 (3.37%) Games
4 13 (3.13%) Banking
5 11 (2.64%) Law
6 10 (2.40%) Retail
7 9 (2.16%) Automotive
7 9 (2.16%) Front Office
8 8 (1.92%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.44%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.20%) Legal
11 4 (0.96%) Advertising
11 4 (0.96%) Marketing
12 3 (0.72%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.48%) Local Government
13 2 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.48%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.24%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.24%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 298 (71.63%) Developer
2 135 (32.45%) .NET Developer
3 122 (29.33%) Senior
4 107 (25.72%) Software Developer
5 77 (18.51%) Senior Developer
6 72 (17.31%) C# Developer
7 55 (13.22%) Lead
8 50 (12.02%) C# .NET Developer
9 49 (11.78%) Full-Stack Developer
10 46 (11.06%) Software Engineer
11 31 (7.45%) Lead Developer
12 27 (6.49%) Senior Software Developer
12 27 (6.49%) Senior Software Engineer
13 26 (6.25%) .NET Software Developer
14 25 (6.01%) .NET Software Engineer
15 23 (5.53%) Applications Developer
16 21 (5.05%) Azure Engineer
17 20 (4.81%) Azure Developer
17 20 (4.81%) Lead Software Developer
17 20 (4.81%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 416 (100.00%) .NET
2 132 (31.73%) ASP.NET
3 87 (20.91%) .NET Framework
4 84 (20.19%) React
5 63 (15.14%) HTML
6 60 (14.42%) CSS
7 59 (14.18%) RESTful
8 58 (13.94%) Blazor
9 55 (13.22%) Entity Framework
10 52 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
11 43 (10.34%) Vue
12 42 (10.10%) AngularJS
13 31 (7.45%) REST
14 28 (6.73%) Node.js
15 26 (6.25%) JSON
16 25 (6.01%) ASP.NET MVC
17 23 (5.53%) ASP.NET Web API
18 21 (5.05%) Microsoft Graph
19 19 (4.57%) HTML5 Canvas
19 19 (4.57%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 19 (4.57%) Greenfield Project
3 17 (4.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 11 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (2.64%) Product Ownership
4 11 (2.64%) Sports Betting
5 10 (2.40%) Hedge funds
6 8 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.44%) 3D Graphics
8 6 (1.44%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.44%) Low-Code
9 4 (0.96%) Social Network
10 3 (0.72%) Digital TV
10 3 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.72%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.48%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.48%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.13%) VMS
2 7 (1.68%) Windows
3 5 (1.20%) Linux
4 1 (0.24%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (33.41%) Full-Stack Development
2 130 (31.25%) Agile
3 112 (26.92%) CI/CD
4 106 (25.48%) Software Engineering
5 97 (23.32%) DevOps
6 70 (16.83%) Microservices
7 60 (14.42%) MVC
8 56 (13.46%) Containerisation
9 49 (11.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 45 (10.82%) SDLC
11 39 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
12 38 (9.13%) User Experience
13 37 (8.89%) Collaborative Culture
14 35 (8.41%) Clean Code
15 34 (8.17%) Mentoring
16 33 (7.93%) Analytics
16 33 (7.93%) OO
17 32 (7.69%) Machine Learning
18 31 (7.45%) SOLID
18 31 (7.45%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 367 (88.22%) C#
2 183 (43.99%) SQL
3 122 (29.33%) JavaScript
4 70 (16.83%) TypeScript
5 39 (9.38%) PowerShell
6 17 (4.09%) Python
7 12 (2.88%) Kusto Query Language
7 12 (2.88%) T-SQL
8 6 (1.44%) Bash
9 4 (0.96%) Bicep
9 4 (0.96%) Java
10 3 (0.72%) PHP
11 2 (0.48%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.24%) C++
12 1 (0.24%) F#
Qualifications
1 29 (6.97%) Degree
2 13 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (2.40%) AWS Certification
4 9 (2.16%) AWS Certified Developer
4 9 (2.16%) Security Cleared
5 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.96%) Azure Certification
6 4 (0.96%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.48%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.37%) QA
2 4 (0.96%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.48%) GDPR
3 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.48%) ITGC
3 2 (0.48%) SLA
4 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 78 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 65 (15.63%) Kubernetes
2 29 (6.97%) Terraform
3 2 (0.48%) Ansible
Vendors
1 135 (32.45%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.57%) Adobe
3 6 (1.44%) Google
4 5 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (0.96%) Facebook
5 4 (0.96%) Workday
6 2 (0.48%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (0.48%) Foundry
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle
6 2 (0.48%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.24%) Apple
7 1 (0.24%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.24%) Databricks
7 1 (0.24%) IBM
7 1 (0.24%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.24%) Reuters
7 1 (0.24%) Sony
7 1 (0.24%) WooCommerce
7 1 (0.24%) Yahoo!
7 1 (0.24%) YouTube